The competition is open to all professional and amateur designers. Consideration will be given to designs honoring the heritage of jazz and calling to mind music ranging from New Orleans to Chicago to New York and places in between while never forgetting that this is Milwaukee. | Feb. 13, 2013»Read Full Article

Spring Green — On a sleepy summer Sunday in 1947, 61-year-old Joe Keller sits in his backyard, smoking a pipe while reading the paper. In the background, a dog barks and children play; church bells chime and insects buzz. The grass is lush and green, and the future seems as bright as the sky, which we're told doesn't have a cloud.

That's how things begin in the outstanding American Players Theatre production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," which director William Brown has set in a seemingly idyllic "Wisconsin neighborhood" resembling thousands like it throughout postwar America. | Aug. 19, 2013»Read Full Article

Blues supergroup the Tedeschi Trucks Band, featuring husband-and-wife team Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, will return to the Riverside Theater Oct. 16. The band won the Best Blues Album Grammy with 2011 debut "Revelator," and is dropping its second studio effort, "Made Up Mind," Tuesday.

NPR is streaming the second album from Wisconsin band Volcano Choir, featuring Justin Vernon and members of Milwaukee band Collections of Colonies of Bee, through the album's Sept. 3 release. Photo by Cameron Wittig.| Aug. 19, 2013»Read Full Blog Post